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ISTAR approached the Sisters High School in 2015 with the idea of developing a Near Space Research program by using stratospheric balloons. I was introduced to Rima Givot who embraced the idea of having her Chemistry Class build experiments to investigate various components of Earth, Space, Sky. Three years and dozens of experiments later, Rima's class has met the challenge by launching their experiments into the stratosphere and recovering the payload to analysis the data.

Leon y Castilla, Spain.- On November 12, 2012 the Spanish private aerospace firm Zero 2 Infinity (Z2I) performed successfully a stratospheric balloon mission from the Civilian/Military airport of Virgen del Camino, in central Spain. The flight was the first balloon mission conducted there in the last 15 years.